Prejudice is an opinion or judgement without due examination toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to. Or we can say that prejudice is a bias on the part of judge, juror or witness which interferes with fairness of judgement. Prejudice involves negative feelings when they are in the presence of or even think about members of the group. Prejudice often involves stereotypes, suggesting that all members of a group behave in certain ways and have certain characteristics. Therefore, prejudice has both cognitive and affective components. Affective component is the positive or negative attitude/ feeling. Beside the cognitive component contains stereotypes.

Prejudice will be dealt as a single set of dynamics that function to dehumanize people who are identifiably different in some way from the people whose perceptions are limited by the dysfunction we called prejudice. This approach is taken for two reasons. First, it is easily defensible through the uderstanding of the dynamics of prejudices and second the continued separation and classification of prejudices according to the superficial categories of those who are prejudiced is a disservice to those who are the targets of discrimination and a distortion of reality.

Much of prejudice stems from our pre-judging other people’s habits, customs, ways of speaking and value. We often do this with no basic for the judgement other that the fact that they (the customs, values, ways of speaking, etc) are different form our own. When we are confines to a single culture, it’s incredibly difficult to see that one’s way is not the only way, that one’s truth is not the only possible way in which things are done. To travel around the world and seeing the variousity of culture may become the nicest thing to do for reducing prejudice. There is no better way to be convinced of this than to go to another country where millions people are doing something...

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Prejudice and discrimination
BUE ID: 120921 QM ID: 12011189
Module Name: Social Psychology (Humanities 3)
Module Code: N3597
Module Coordinator: Prof/ Cheherezade Ghazi
Number of used words: 1920
Submission Date: 26-1-2014
Out-lines:
Introduction
Definition
Theoretical background
Types of Prejudice
Religious prejudice
How we can reduce prejudice?
Conclusion
References
IntroductionPrejudice is a serious matter can be noticed in many situations in our daily life through interacting and observing the human’s attitude and behavior. Prejudice in many times is due to stereotyping; forming or sharing general beliefs, traits, and concepts about social groups of people and their members. Prejudice may be positive or negative depending on the beliefs and concepts which people formed about specific group or members. Prejudice and stereotypes of specific group are always due to their religious, racial, sex, ethnic, age, disabilities, etc. The stereotypes comes from people prejudgments or making a quick thoughts, perceptions and concepts about individuals due to their membership in specific group not due to their personal characteristics because the human mind needs to classify items or people into different groups to make it easy to deal with them as a result they treats the whole group in a similar way although...

...understanding of the concepts. Using my experience with prejudice I will be providing how what I learned in the social psychology textbook. Prejudice has been a very relevant topic I have related with throughout my life. In addition to reading and thinking about the concepts covered in the text, an important part of the learning process includes applying these concepts to your own life and experiences.
Prejudice is a preconceived negative judgment of a group and its individual members (Myers). Prejudice is an attitude essentially that can be either positive or negative judgments. More than likely the prejudice someone is faced with is negative.
Being that it is an attitude you also have to know about the ABC’s of attitudes. A is for the affect or feelings. B is for the behavior tendency or inclination to act. And C is for the cognitions or beliefs. They also help tie into stereotypes and discrimination. Stereotypes is a negative evaluation in which you generalize the personal attributes of a group. Discrimination is an unjustified behavior toward ones group. Whether it is conscious or automatic prejudice is your quick response to associations.
“Although our [conscious] minds are in the right places and we may truly believe we are not prejudiced, our hearts aren’t quite there yet” (John Dovido, Time, 2009). With so many races in the world, it is often easy to see how quickly we are to...

...1. Evaluate Tajfel’s core study in terms of streotypes and weakness [10]
Prejudice and Discrimination have been always controversial and it has become one of the crucial topics in the world of Social Psychology.
Henry Tajfel was a British social psychology who is well known for his SIT or Social Identity Theory; ‘Intergroup Discrimination’ (1970). This theory has been useful to identify the social causes of prejudice and as well as explaining individual
differences.
First of all, this study is aimed to show or demonstrate that merely putting or diving people into groups could cause them to discriminate the other group.
Tajfel’s procedure of the experiment involved two laboratory experiments. The subjects of the first experiment contained 64 boys, 14 and 15 year-old from a school in Bristol. The boys from each group knew each other well, since they were actually in the same houses at the school. The second experiment was similar to the first one, since 48 students also already knew each other.
In terms of stereotypes and his study, Tajfel proposed that Stereotyping or putting people into groups is based on a normal cognitive; we tend to group or categories things. By the statement, he meant that we see the people in our group are just the ‘same’ with us because there are certain similarities that makes us parallel with them and there’ll be a tendency of us calling the ‘same’ people “us” and those who are different or out-group...

...Prejudice in the World Today; Will it Ever End?
According to “Causes of Prejudice” by Vincent N. Parrillo, there are many causes to this complex phenomenon. Many social scientists have attempted to identify the causes of prejudice, but no single factor is to blame. Prejudice happens all around the world every second of every day. During this essay I am going to address the possible causes of this phenomena by looking at the psychology approach as well as the sociological standpoints to this problem in our world. I will also address the question: “Will prejudice ever cease to exist in our world?” This question is very controversial, but through observation the answer is obvious. The main reason I want to address this question as the main topic of my essay is because I want more than anything to be optimistic about us as a civilization to be able to get rid of prejudice. Prejudice hurts people every single day. I see it on campus all this time, as well as hear it as a common conversation for those around me. I have also been a victim of prejudice. Some forms for prejudice are good but most are bad and meant to hurt the targeted group. Every person and every group has been victims of prejudice at one point or another. Hopefully I will find through this essay that we can one day get rid of the world’s...

...the reduction of prejudice?
Prejudice and Racism are very closely related to each other in our society. To stereotype someone is when we apply a series of traits to them based on one trait that resembles their identity in a particular group. Some examples to stereotyping would be Asians are hardworking and studious, black people steal a lot, and many others. This very closely relates with the definition of prejudice. Prejudice is a preconceived opinion that is not based on reason or actual experience. Most of the people who judge people on their particular culture using stereotypes do not actually have an experience of seeing or experiencing that particular stereotype. They are basing it off of knowledge they have received or came across from other people. Very few actually have experiences of encountering the stereotypical character of a certain group and use their experience to conceive and judge the people of that certain group.
We tend to categorize ourselves in different groups whether it is through cultural differences, race differences, or difference in interest. Why do people who have prejudices tend to stereotype? These people tend to divide people into different categories of “them”. They classify these people as different. Although grouping ourselves is a nature of human kind, groups of different goals, interest, race or culture tend to prejudice using stereotypes of...

...How might prejudice develop and how might it be reduced?
• Prejudice: A judgment or opinion made without adequate knowledge; to Prejudge, to pass judgement or form premature opinion.
We can break the word prejudice down into two parts to give clearer understanding of its meaning, Pre is before and judice is to make judgement, so it is a negative preconceived judgement on an individual or group prior to seeking full knowledge or understanding about them.
Prejudice effects many aspects of today’s society. Racism, sexism and homophobia are all examples of discrimination against a group that they may feel does not fit in to their norms in society. This can stretch further to prejudice against single parents, students, the elderly, the disabled, Goths, Emo’s, basically any group can be subjected to a form of prejudice. These negative preconceived ideas affect the way we treat people on a day to day basis. It is fair to say that most people would like to think they are tolerant of others and are not prejudice but it is unlikely that these people have no prejudice at all, it is inevitable that certain groups would not personally appeal to everyone and we may be drawn to other groups for company.
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...Most people have experienced prejudice, stereotyping, or discrimination at some time in his or her life. There is no doubt social discrimination, prejudice, and hostility still create serious problems and challenges, even in today’s apparently more and more individualized and “enlightened” society. This paper will discuss prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination in the context of social psychology; what the consequences of stereotyping and discrimination are; and strategies to improve attitudes, judgments, and behaviors.
Social psychologists recognize prejudice, stereotyping, and discrimination “by focusing on whether they involve feelings (affect), cognition, or behaviors.” (Feenstra, 6.1 Prejudice, stereotypes, and discrimination, para 1). Prejudice is a negative belief or feeling (attitude) about a particular group of individuals. Prejudices can be passed on from one generation to the next. Cognitive schemas can cause stereotyping and contribute to prejudice. Stereotypes are beliefs about individuals involving their membership in a particular group. These beliefs can be positive, negative, or unbiased. Stereotypes concerning gender, ethnicity, or profession is common in many societies. “Discrimination is negative behavior toward individuals or groups based on beliefs and feelings about those groups. A group you are a part of is called your...

...Essay Question: IS IT POSSİBLE TO REMOVE PREJUDİCESPrejudice means the attitude toward the members of some group based
solely on their membership in that group and it can be positive or negative. The main
reason of prejudice is most probably stereotyping and it involves generalizations about
the typical characteristics of members of the groups. Prejudice is ubiquitous and it affects all of us and it sometimes cause negative consequences. Hence, many people search works or studies to remove prejudice effects.We also learn from texts which is called ‘’Understanding Prejudice and ‘’The Cognitive Process’’ by Gordon W. Allport. In addition George Aliken says ''If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed, and color, we would find some other causes for prejudice by noon.’’ It shows that prejudice cannot be removed totally and I strongly agree with this statement. In other words, people cannot have a chance to get rid of prejudices because of many stereotypes, a fear of the unfamiliar and the effects of social environment.
Stereotypes is the main factor why it is impossible to get rid of prejudice totally.
Each society has many stereotypes about different issues and it is impossible to isolate
people from society not to affected these stereotypes. To begin with, stereotypes may...